Mennonites and Divorce

Who knew? Someone actually put out an official statement on it. I started to think that maybe I had misinterpreted the Mennonite position on divorce but apparently not. Here's the link: http://www.anabaptists.org/tracts/divorce2.html

Turns out that I am in an "adulteress marriage" since my husband was married before. Turns out that he can divorce me, return to his first wife, and all is okay. I am stuck, according to this statement, in spite of this being my first marriage to live a life of celibacy, with no remarriage possible.

I do not believe for one instance that this is God's plan or way of thinking about people in bad marriages. The above linked statement is legalism at it's worst, straining at gnats and swallowing camels, making clean the outside of the cup while the inside is dirty and the church putting burdens on people that they themselves could not bear. I might not be sure what the Bible says exactly about divorce but this pitiless position is not it.

Layla